Facilities

Maintains memberships and strong working relationships with domestic and international cloud standards bodies, government entities, and working groups that coordinate
future directions of cloud services.

Provides experience in creating and managing high performance computing and Grid frameworks that span local, regional, and national scales.

Conducts research in future computing capabilities that dramatically increase Texas Tech University's novel computational research and opportunities in scientific innovations.

Coordinates disciplinary and interdisciplinary research engagements and industry partnerships to identify, foster, and develop new research and educational opportunities.

Stays abreast with new computing, storage, and visualization technologies and their scope and impact in scientific computing.

Collaborates with campus researchers, students, and other TTU-supported projects and programs to create a skilled IT workforce that could connect domain sciences and computing capabilities.

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Now that you have seen some of the benefits that can accrue to your organization through affiliation with the CAC, take the next steps toward membership: Membership Agreement.

Become a Member

Become a Member

An annual membership fee allows industry partners to reap the benefits of CAC’s full research program. CAC members
from industry and government collaborate with and advise researchers to create a diverse, industry-relevant program that spans many
different areas of work.
Terms of membership are governed by a simple
Center-wide membership agreement
and associated bylaws
through which activities are directed by the members themselves
by direct participation on an advisory board that selects projects and activities of the Center.

Joining is as simple as filling out the Membership Agreement, selecting the desired number
of memberships and any auxiliary research you may want to pursue, and contacting us to send it in.

To learn more about how to become a member, please
contact the site director Alan Sill at alan.sill@ttu.edu.

Membership Fees

Per calendar year:

Base membership: $35,000/year - Existing members through CY 2016

Executive membership: $70,000/year and up - Existing members through CY 2016

Base membership: $50,000/year - New members effective June 2016

Executive membership: $100,000/year and up - New members effective June 2016

Base membership: $50,000/year - All members effective Jan 2017

Executive membership: $100,000/year and up - All members effective Jan 2017

More Information on Center Funding

Joining the Center through any site puts you on the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) for the entire Center, which selects and approves research projects.
Members who join at the Executive level (two memberships) or higher are allowed twice the number of votes.

Per National Science Foundation I/UCEC program guidelines, industry and government contributions in the form of annual CAC memberships,
coupled with baseline funds from NSF and university matching funds, directly support the Center’s expenses for personnel, equipment, travel, and supplies.
A single membership is the minimum for voting, and multiple memberships are possible.

Memberships funds go directly to support the Center’s graduate students and faculty supervision for research.
Additionally, the National Science Foundation and university provide funds and cost sharing to pay for administrative costs of operation,
ensuring that these costs are covered separately and do not have to come out of membership fees.

The work of the Center is carried out in the form of projects. Project selection is done by the IAB through a voting process.
Projects can be funded through a single membership, but joint projects
are encouraged by combining votes from multiple members to support projects with budgets that exceed individual membership amounts.
Additional funding beyond memberships may also be supplied by member companies or organizations to speed up selected research.

For special projects, it is also possible for any Center member to request to negotiate private
research on a one-on-one basis beyond the projects funded by the membership fees. This opportunity is only available to member companies
or organizations in good standing with existing memberships in the Center.

Each regular membership is leveraged by the combined number of Center memberships, therefore multiplying its total value by a large factor.
With present membership levels, for example, a single membership represents only a few percent of the total projected annual budget of the CAC,
but yields access to the full range of Center activities, thus producing a research program at modest cost to your organization
that would be much more expensive to pursue on your own using only internal resources.

You also gain access to the
state-of-the-art facilities and software environment provided by the Center, which is fully up to date with current best practices
and would be much more expensive for your organization to produce on its own. Thus membership in the CAC represents extraordinary value that
will accelerate your organization's progress towards its defined goals.